






                            Commercial Mail Relay (CMR)


            _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
            Commercial Mail Relay
            c/o Chloe Holg
            USC/Information Sciences Institute
            4676 Admiralty Way
            Marina del Rey, CA  90292

            _E-_m_a_i_l: Intermail-request@ISI.EDU

            _P_h_o_n_e: (213) 822-1511


            _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n

            The Commercial Mail Relay service  currently  provides  mail
            relay  functions  between  the Internet and three commercial
            electronic mail systems:  Telemail,  MCI-Mail,  and  DIALCOM
            systems (IEEE-Compmail, NSFMAIL, and USDA-MAIL).

            To send mail via the Commercial Mail  Relay  users  on  each
            system  use their normal mail programs to prepare, send, and
            receive messages.  Messages to be forwarded are sent to  the
            CMR  mailbox  called ``Intermail'' on the local mail system.
            The CMR operates by having a program  service  mailboxes  in
            both  the  local and the destination mail systems.  When the
            right information is supplied either in the ARPA-Mail header
            ``TO'' field, at the beginning of the text of a message, the
            program forwards those messages into the other mail system.

            The Simple Forwarding Header (SFH) method of addressing mail
            for   each   system   follows.   First  send  a  message  to
            ``Intermail@ISI.EDU'', and use one of the SFHs in  the  body
            of the text.

                 a.   Forward: TELEMAIL
                      To: [user/org]system/country
                      <blank line>

                      Begin text of message here.
            _________________________
            The information in this section is provided  in  accor-
            dance  with the copyright notice appearing at the front
            of this guide.




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                 b.   Forward: COMPMAIL
                      TO:  CMP0123
                      <blank line>

                      Begin text of message here.


                 c.   Forward:NSFMAIL
                      TO:  NSF0123
                      <blank line>

                      Begin text of message here.


                 d.   Forward: USDAMAIL
                      TO:  AGS786
                      <blank line>

                      Begin text of message here.


                 e.   Forward: MCIMAIL
                      TO:  198-7654
                      <blank line>

                      Begin text of message here.

            For Telemail, and the  Dialcom  systems,  we  have  added  a
            feature, of simply typing the Commercial Mail mailbox in the
            ARPA-Internet header.

            TO:[user/organization]system/country%Telemail@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU
            TO: CMP765%compmail@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU
            TO: NSF765%nsfmail@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU
            TO: AGS765%usdamail@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU

            In order for a message to be delivered from one of the  com-
            mercial  mail systems to a mailbox in the ARPA-Internet Mail
            system, you must first send mail to the CMR mailbox of  that
            system,  then add the Internet forwarding information at the
            beginning of the text of each message.

            The CMR mailbox address in each system is:








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                    Telemail: [Intermail/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA
                    MCI-Mail: Intermail  or  107-8239
                    CompMail: Intermail  or  CMP0817
                    NSF-Mail: Intermail  or  NSF153
                    USDA-Mail: Intermail  or  AGS9999


            For example, to send a message from  Telemail  to  an  ARPA-
            mailbox this format is used.
                 To: [INTERMAIL/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA
                 Subject: Test Message Number 1

                 Forward: ARPA
                 To: user@host.domain

            For detailed instructions on how to use the Commercial  Mail
            Relay    (CMR)    send    a    message    to    ``intermail-
            request@intermail.isi.edu''.

            _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s

            CMR is a UNIX based system, using the  MMDF  mail  software.
            Any  IP/TCP  organization  may access CMR.  See restrictions
            below.

            _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _C_M_R _G_a_t_e_w_a_y

            The requirement for using CMR is  that  the  work  conducted
            must  be  DARPA  sponsored  research  or other US government
            approved business (or otherwise meet the acceptable use pol-
            icy of DARPA,) only.

            However, DARPA as a member of the Federal Research  Internet
            Coordinating  Committee  (FRICC)  has  agreed to the (draft)
            policy for communication networks that  provides  (in  part)
            that:  ``the member agencies of the FRICC agree to carry all
            traffic that meets the acceptable use  policy  of  the  ori-
            ginating member agency.''

            Thus, e-mail messages  (i.e.,  ``traffic'')  that  meet  the
            acceptable  use  policy  of  an agency and pass through some
            facility of that agency (i.e., ``the  originating  member'')
            on  the  way  to  Intermail or CMR are allowed.  The current
            member agencies of the FRICC are DARPA, NSF, DOE, NASA,  AND
            NIH.

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            scholars,  public  and  private,  from the United States and
            foreign countries (unless denied access by national  policy)
            are allowed access.

            BITNET and UUCP (and other) networks are  interconnected  to
            the  Internet  via  mail relays. It is the responsibility of
            the managers of these mail relays to ensure that the  e-mail
            messages  (``traffic'')  that  enters the Internet via their
            mail relays meets the acceptable use policy  of  the  member
            agency providing the internet access.

            _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n

            Problems:  call Chloe  Holg  (213)  822-1511  or  e-mail  to
            holg@isi.edu.




































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